Did you get your line of reasoning from Tim Staples?
I've found people who take this approach are ones who've not bothered to try and study the language.
IIRC even Msgr Pope noted he needed to study the Greek to really know the NT. Salvation posted that article a while back.
Do catholic priests not study Greek and/or Hebrew? Or do they just study Latin so they can do the Mass?
Do you mean people who actually take the State Department Language Proficieny tests or people who imagine themselves scholars but are not recognized as such by any competent authority ?
Did you get your line of reasoning from Tim Staples ?
Regarding languages ? No. I find people who take this approach want to appropriate an image of authority to convince others, and themselves, of some particular interpretation by appealing to original languages in which they are not authorities.
An argument from authority (Latin: argumentum ad verecundiam), also called an appeal to authority, is a common type of argument which can be fallacious, such as when an authority is cited on a topic outside their area of expertise or when the authority cited is not a true expert.
Regarding the argument regarding brothers ? Read the link. It is in English.
I've found people who take this approach are ones who've not bothered to try and study the language.
LOL
IIRC even Msgr Pope noted he needed to study the Greek to really know the NT. Salvation posted that article a while back.
There is nothing wrong with studying Greek; posing as a Greek scholar to try to contradict two thousand years of Greek language tradition ? Well, no, that is not a wise use of talent.
Do catholic priests not study Greek and/or Hebrew? Or do they just study Latin so they can do the Mass?
Catholic priests represent perhaps every major language under heaven. I have no idea how many study Greek and Hebrew. If you work in Israel you study Hebrew. It's what you do. If one's talent is in languages, one might naturally study languages to use the talents that are on loan from God, so to speak.
Have you ever heard of someone learning a second language and then trying to dictate to the *original* speakers what a passage MUST mean? Despite unanimous opinion to the contrary?
Because that's exactly what you are doing. You are saying the whole Greek-speaking Church got it wrong for 2000 years. Oh, and, incidentally, the Syrian Church and the Alexandrian Church and the Roman Church which were all Greek speaking in the beginning, despite their later adoptions of Syriac and Coptic and Latin.